Ben Carson described the apocalypse at a DC holiday party

For one night, Americans did something crazy and listened to Ben Carson.

Some may choose to discuss what they're looking forward to doing with friends and family over the holidays, but not Ben Carson, the Washington Post reports.

Speaking with Deana Bass, his acting chief of staff, at a Capitol Hill holiday party, the head of Housing and Urban Development asked her, "Did you know that if North Korea detonated a nuclear weapon into our exosphere, it could take out our entire electrical grid?"

She shook her head, prompting Carson to further describe what he thought a complete lack of power would do to the nation.

"What's that movie where there's complete lawlessness and anarchy for one night a year?" he said. "'The Purge'! It will be like 'The Purge' all the time."

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BALTIMORE, MD - AUGUST 12: (JAPAN OUT) (VIDEO CAPTURE) In this image from video Dr. Ben Carson talks about his life and education August 12, 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Carson was profiled for a CNN program called 'America's Best: Science and Medicine,' for his preeminence in the field of neurosurgery. (Photo by CNN via Getty Images)

Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks, Ben Carson, Ralph Abernathy and Levy Watkins at Johns Hopkins University during a celebration of the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, Baltimore, Maryland, 1980. (Photo by Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images)

SCOTTSDALE, AZ - SEPTEMBER 5: Dr. Ben Carson is interviewed during a live streaming Web-A-Thon with Wake Up America September 5, 2014 at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. Carson is a retired neurosurgeon who would run in the 2016 Presidential campaign as a conservative for the Tea Party. (Photo by Laura Segall/Getty Images)

SCOTTSDALE, AZ - SEPTEMBER 5: Dr. Ben Carson speaks as the keynote speaker at the Wake Up America gala Event September 5, 2014 at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. Carson is a retired neurosurgeon who would run in the 2016 Presidential campaign as a conservative for the Tea Party. (Photo by Laura Segall/Getty Images)

SCOTTSDALE, AZ - SEPTEMBER 5: Dr. Ben Carson (C) chats with guests after a live streaming Web-A-Thon with Wake Up America September 5, 2014 at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. Carson is a retired neurosurgeon who would run in the 2016 Presidential campaign as a conservative for the Tea Party. (Photo by Laura Segall/Getty Images)

US conservative Ben Carson is surrounded by supporters as he waits to be interviewed at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland, outside Washington,DC on February 26, 2015. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - FEBRUARY 26: Ben Carson, former neurosurgeon, addresses the 42nd annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) February 26, 2015 in National Harbor, Maryland. Carson is the author of 'One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save Americas Future' and 'America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great'. Conservative activists attended the annual political conference to discuss their agenda. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 08: Ben Carson attends the National Action Network (NAN) national convention at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel on April 8, 2015 in New York City. The network, founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton in 1991 is hosting various politicians, organizers and religious leaders to talk about the nation's most pressing issues. The conservative Carson is widely rumored to be considering a GOP presidential run in 2016. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

DETROIT, MI - MAY 4: Republican Dr. Ben Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, speaks as he officially announces his candidacy for President of the United States at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts May 4, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan. Carson was scheduled to travel today to Iowa, but changed his plans when his mother became critically ill. He now will be traveling to Dallas instead to be with his mother Sonya. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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For those unfamiliar with the film the neurosurgeon was referencing, it's the first installment in what would become a franchise of horror movies that all take place in a world where crime gets completely legalized for one night of the year in America.

Ironically, President Trump inadvertently tried to lift his 2020 campaign slogan from the tagline for "The Purge: Election Year": "Keep America Great."

It wouldn't be the last film Carson would bring up that evening as a crowd started to encircle him, his pop culture-infused critique of America's crumbling social structure apparently garnering people's interest.

"There's never been a time in the history of the world where a society became divided like this and did well," he continued. "And we don't really have a reason to be fighting each other. There was a movie some years ago, a Will Smith movie called 'Independence Day.'"

The former neurosurgeon with no government experience, who somehow oversees an agency with a budget of about $40 billion, proceeded to regale event attendees at the Monocle restaurant by reportedly describing how people realized their conflicts were nothing in comparison to the threat posed by an armada of landmark-hating aliens prior to Jeff Goldblum and the star of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” stepping in.

Carson felt that if humanity could realize what was truly at stake, foes such as Palestinians and Jews or the United States and Russia could be "like best friends."